Word Meanings - BASILISK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.

• Fatality
  The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• Allegorization
  The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.
• Breather
  One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
• Drivebolt
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• Driveled
  of Drivel
• Fatally
  In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
• Serpent
  Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
• Would-be
  Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
• Allegorized
  of Allegorize
• Breathful
  Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.
• Drivelled
  of Drivel
• Fatalness
  Quality of being fatal.
• Serpented
  of Serpent
• Woulding
  Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity.
• Allegation
  The act of alleging or positively asserting.
• Allegorizing
  of Allegorize
• Breathless
  Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
• Driveling
  of Drivel

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